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National Research Council of Science & Technology

1. Conceptual Illustration

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The KIST research team extracted high-purity organic ligand from PET waste bottles and used it to synthesize a high-efficiency adsorbent material that could effectively remove antibiotics from water in an environmentally and economically beneficial way. During the development of this adsorbent material, an alkaline hydrolysis process was used to induce a neutralization reaction, resulting in the production of a high-purity terephthalic acid.

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Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

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